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ELC 017: The Limitless Possibilities of xAPI (Tin Can)

by Connie Malamed

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megan-boweAre you hearing buzz about the Tin Can API and wondering what it is and what it can do? Do you want to spread your wings and take advantage of modern technologies?

In this episode, Megan Bowe demystifies the Tin Can API (a.k.a. Experience API or xAPI) and discusses its potential for advancing the learning environment. Megan’s knack for explaining the Experience API helped it become the most successful and most quickly adopted learning technology innovation in the last thirty years. She worked hand-in-hand with innovators and early adopters implementing the specification at Rustici Software, teaciing others and designing products, early content and application prototypes.  In many ways, Megan invented much of what the emerging community of practice advocates around this learning technology. She continues the charge today at Making Better.

WE DISCUSS:

  • How SCORM started and it’s limitations
  • What the xAPI offers to designers and learners
  • What an API is and what it does
  • The beauty of the Learning Record Store (LRS)
  • Systems that can create and use xAPI data
  • Using xAPI for tracking and sharing your own learning or for creating a portfolio
  • Innovating with Learning Locker
  • Use cases for xAPI (getting insights in so different ways)
  • How to combine Tin Can and Open Badges
  • The big picture view
  • Getting started with xAPI

TIME: 33 minutes

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TRANSCRIPT: Download the ELC 017 Podcast Transcript

RESOURCES:

  • Making Better (Megan’s website)
  • xAPI Overview
  • IEEE Working Group on xAPI
  • Research Report: The Experience API
  • Learning Locker
  • Curatr
  • Rustici Software

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Comments

  1. Connie Malamed says

    November 27, 2019 at 8:25 pm

    If the data is attached to a specific person, I think you would need to inform them of the data collection and its purpose. If it’s collected and aggregated, then I think it wouldn’t matter. But, I do not know in this example what they did. Good question.

  2. Helena says

    November 25, 2019 at 1:57 pm

    Would the user know that their activity is being tracked? For example the Salesforce user example.

  3. Helena says

    November 25, 2019 at 1:17 pm

    I think it is important to have a deeper understanding of learning analytics.

  4. Connie Malamed says

    January 7, 2015 at 4:29 pm

    Welcome, Dave. This is an awesome field!
    Connie

  5. Dave U says

    January 6, 2015 at 11:01 pm

    Very informative for this relative newcomer to the online learning sector! Thanks Connie and Megan.

  6. John Hoffer says

    August 15, 2014 at 4:26 pm

    Tara, I agree. Implementors will have to find ways to leverage the data by planning ahead and capturing data in a useful way. Whether for improving eLearning or perhaps even tools usage as was discussed in the podcast, if all you do is capture some half thought out pieces of data, the whole concept will be of no real use.

  7. Taras says

    August 2, 2014 at 12:56 pm

    The best immediate application would be in the opposite direction. Lesson creators can add feedback and conditional messages to understand how learners use their content. This will not only allow designers to improve lesson modules overall but, with help from LMS, also create real-time differentiated instruction logic beyond just modalities. A/B testing anyone?

    As with any API – the power comes from useful domain-specific functionality of an interface – not simply exposing raw data. Defining interesting verbs is where the value will be (REST vs SOAP approach in software for example). Assessment side of things is especially interesting here.

  8. Connie Malamed says

    May 22, 2014 at 3:16 pm

    Thanks, John. I thought Megan was quite informative and explained it all very well.
    Connie

  9. John Hoffer says

    May 21, 2014 at 8:46 am

    Very informative. Loved hearing some of the practical application of xAPI. looking forward to visiting the sites mentioned and reading more about the innovation possibilities with the technology.

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